[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: Installing HURD



> I read  "The idiot's guide to installing Hurd on a linux box.".

:) Is it helpful?

> Unfortuantely I couldn't find the file mentioned (gnu-0.2.tar.gz) on
> alpha.gnu.org or on ftp.gnu.org or ftp.debian.org.  Perhaps I'm blind.

ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gnu-0.2/gnu-0.2.tar.gz
 
> Second, is there any way to install HURD without a linux box.  I've
> currently got an empty partition sitting on my Win95 machine.  I used
> tomsrtbt (an excellent minilinux) to mke2fs.  I got a GRUB boot disk from

Did you make it -o hurd? otherwise hurd won't work.

> alpha.gnu.org.../hurd/boot (I did manage to get hurd running form a
> floppy, but from there, I was a bit lost. :)

Yeah - that was just GRUB....
 
You need to copy the tar across (as the idiot's guide says) to have a
working hurd system.

Matthew

-- 
Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo

Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society
Selwyn College Computer Support
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/
http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/
http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/


Reply to: